Thursday, October 05, 2006
random - Thursday, October 5 2006
quickly, here's some random amusement while i procrastinate on making a "real" post once again:
1) here's a clip Tyson got of this sudden rainstorm that came out of "goddamn NOwhere" when we were biking around town checking out grocery stores back in August...
(hit just as we were leaving our second heist...*ahem*...i mean, supermarket.)
2) was passing through a cd shop in Osaka when this caught my attention:
almost sounded interesting enough for me to buy...
...almost.
maybe if i come across "Slap of Beef" i'll have to give 'em a listen.
3) now THIS is how you know the Japanese are a technologically advanced nation:
2L of beer from a vending machine.
we can't even buy 2 litres of POP in Canadian ones!
4) and finally, you know how we have those Canadian ads for the Red Cross blood donor services where you hear some touching monologue/story on the radio...with some sappy background music, and they end the whole thing off with their snappy tag line: "Blood...it's in you to give."?
know what i'm talking about?
well, while i commend the advertiser's use of emotional/psychological appeal in calling the public to support this noble effort, it does seem to be sort of a roundabout way of saying "we need hemoglobin!"
now i admit their customs and "politeness" can be a bit trying/frustrating at times, but in this respect(donating blood) the Japanese are much more "to-the-point" than we are:
sign on the back of a mobile donor unit (a big bus in the middle of the street in Osaka)
o yeah, and if there's a sudden emergency or extremely urgent need for blood somewhere, the whole unit goes Gundam-style and turns into this tricked out mobile suit to transport blood asap:
no, not really.
k, i should sleep. gonna be a full day tomorrow; it's our school's Cultural Festival. among other things, i'll be playing tenor sax with the band.
Oyasumi...
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quickly, here's some random amusement while i procrastinate on making a "real" post once again:
1) here's a clip Tyson got of this sudden rainstorm that came out of "goddamn NOwhere" when we were biking around town checking out grocery stores back in August...
(hit just as we were leaving our second heist...*ahem*...i mean, supermarket.)
2) was passing through a cd shop in Osaka when this caught my attention:
almost sounded interesting enough for me to buy...
...almost.
maybe if i come across "Slap of Beef" i'll have to give 'em a listen.
3) now THIS is how you know the Japanese are a technologically advanced nation:
2L of beer from a vending machine.
we can't even buy 2 litres of POP in Canadian ones!
4) and finally, you know how we have those Canadian ads for the Red Cross blood donor services where you hear some touching monologue/story on the radio...with some sappy background music, and they end the whole thing off with their snappy tag line: "Blood...it's in you to give."?
know what i'm talking about?
well, while i commend the advertiser's use of emotional/psychological appeal in calling the public to support this noble effort, it does seem to be sort of a roundabout way of saying "we need hemoglobin!"
now i admit their customs and "politeness" can be a bit trying/frustrating at times, but in this respect(donating blood) the Japanese are much more "to-the-point" than we are:
sign on the back of a mobile donor unit (a big bus in the middle of the street in Osaka)
o yeah, and if there's a sudden emergency or extremely urgent need for blood somewhere, the whole unit goes Gundam-style and turns into this tricked out mobile suit to transport blood asap:
no, not really.
k, i should sleep. gonna be a full day tomorrow; it's our school's Cultural Festival. among other things, i'll be playing tenor sax with the band.
Oyasumi...
